In spite of Islam's long history in Europe and the growing number
of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim
pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the
first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging
research field. Placing the pilgrims' practices and experiences
centre stage, scholars from history, anthropology, religious
studies, sociology, and art history examine historical and
contemporary hajj and non-hajj pilgrimage to sites outside and
within Europe. Sources include online travelogues, ethnographic
data, biographic information, and material and performative
culture. The interlocutors are European-born Muslims, converts to
Islam, and Muslim migrants to Europe, in addition to people who
identify themselves with other faiths. Most interlocutors reside in
Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Great
Britain, and Norway. This book identifies four courses of
developments: Muslims resident in Europe continue to travel to
Mecca and Medina, and to visit shrine sites located elsewhere in
the Middle East and North Africa. Secondly, there is a revival of
pilgrimage to old pilgrimage sites in South-eastern Europe.
Thirdly, new Muslim pilgrimage sites and practices are being
established in Western Europe. Fourthly, Muslims visit
long-established Christian pilgrimage sites in Europe. These
practices point to processes of continuity, revitalization, and
innovation in the practice of Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. Linked
to changing sectarian, political, and economic circumstances,
pilgrimage sites are dynamic places of intra-religious as well as
inter-religious conflict and collaboration, while pilgrimage
experiences in multiple ways also transform the individual and
affect the home-community.
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